Amaro quotes from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

I help you out, what do I get?

Benson

We'll work something out.

I want dinner. I want a steak.

Benson

You got it.

And a baked potato.

Sure. We'll see if we can get you a cup of coffee, too.

[smiles] Thanks, honey.

[smiles back] You're welcome, darlin'.

We can help you. We can get you off the street.

What else am I gonna do? What am I gonna write on my resume, "whore"?

Benson

FBI Agent Lewis, this is my partner, Detective Nick Amaro.

Agent Lewis

Nice to meet you, sunshine.

You, too. Hey, can I ask what the FBI's interest is in a New York cold case?

Agent Lewis

We think he's a serial. He's our prime suspect in three other rape/murders - Sacramento, Philadelphia, Washington, besides two in New York.

But the DNA matched a Manhattan case, makes it ours. And these aren't federal crimes.

Agent Lewis

How about we work together on this?

Benson

Just so you know, Nick, when she asks, it's not really a question.

Yeah, I'm getting that.

Fin

I don't wanna move.

Benson

It's 6 feet, Fin.

You're all still too complacent. I've said before, I'll say it again. It's a new year, I wanna shake things up.

Fin

I like my old desk.

Well, we can get you a grief counselor.

Really? You and Cassidy?

Benson

A: I didn't tell you because it's none of your business. B: It's really not that big of a deal. And C, Nick: I didn't tell you because I didn't want this.

Benson

Remember when you asked about my father, and I told you it was a long story?

Yeah.

Benson

It's not that long.

[about his ex-wife] In hindsight, when she came home from Iraq, she was textbook PTSD. I didn't see it. I took it personally. I think it cost me my marriage.

Have you told her that?

No, it's a little late. I don't think she wants to hear it.

Maybe the first step is to stop beating yourself up.

Fin

We were making our last buy from Escobar. Somebody must have ratted me out. The next thing I know I got a .38 pressed against the back of my head. Luis jumped in. The gun went off. He got hit twice, in the hip and the knee. I left Narcotics that day.

It wasn't your fault.

Fin

Yeah, just like it wasn't my fault with Rollins? Do yourself a favor, Nick: Walk behind me.

[of the victim] The way she was dressed, she's gotta be a working girl.

Benson

Nick, you gotta get out more - everyone dresses like that now.

Benson

After what you did to her, you're lucky I didn't kick your teeth in.

Lewis

What I did, you should be so lucky someone does that to you.

Shut the hell up or I'll take you out right now and wipe that stupid smile off your face.

Benson

Nick, it's all right. I wanna hear this. I should be so lucky? How?

Lewis

Well, sure, sweetheart. What do you want to hear?

Benson

Whatever you got.

Lewis

You mean, like, how disturbing it would be to make a fine, educated, cultured woman like that disrobe? How humiliating it would be? How she might have covered herself with her hands?

Benson

Go on.

Lewis

You want to hear about how I tied her to the bed. Not too tight, so I could watch her struggle. Or do you want to hear how I made her get down on her knees and forced myself inside her? Is that your thing? Or do you wanna hear about the pyrotechnics? How I put out cigarettes on her? [smiles] Yeah, gotcha. You want to hear how I branded her private parts with keys and hot hangers.

All right. I know you're getting off on this, but you know what? I wanna know how you got in that apartment.

Lewis

That's by the numbers. [to Benson] Men are from Mars, right, detective? He wants the logistics, but you... you want the emotions.

Benson

I do. So tell me more.

Lewis

A 60-year-old woman. She did things she never expected to do... things she never knew were possible... with her fingers, with her mouth. Do you wanna hear how, in the evening, she said she would do anything as she begged for her life? Or how, in the morning, she begged me to take her out of her misery? Which do you think I enjoyed more?

[about Lindsay Anderson] Last night I friended her on Facebook.

Fin

Tell me she poked you.

Fin

Hey, Muñoz sends out some selfies, that's not a sex crime. All I know is I don't wanna see any more of 'em.

It's more than that. This clown wants to be mayor. He opened himself up to blackmail. This could just be the tip of the iceberg.

I think we saw more than just the tip.

Daddy, how do I get on "American Diva"?

The same way you get to Carnegie Hall: practice.

What? You're weird, daddy.

We can't take this to trial. The girls won't testify against each other. The only way to make a case is to put two four-year-old boys on the stand to testify against their sisters; those boys are damaged enough as it is.

They're damaged?! [scoffs in disbelief and anger] I see.

Mr. Walker--

[cutting her off] No! Get away from me. Just get away! [storms out]

Benson

I keep going over it in my head... those kids did not sound coached.

We had the DNA. We were just doing our jobs.

People lie, people make mistakes, people get hurt. This comes with the territory.

No, you... you guys tell yourselves whatever you want. This didn't have to happen.

Does Maria still work for the Pentagon?

She's Public Affairs for the DoD. It's two separate departments.

Yeah, but D.C. is such a small town. Everybody knows everybody. Has Maria given you any reason for dropping Zara off tonight?

No.

Good, because if she's hiding something, it'll give her more reason to do you a favor.

Is that really how women think?

[smiles] No, just one woman.